Ethan Resnick

About

Hi, I’m Ethan. I’m a UX designer and programmer.
I care about improving the systems that shape our public policy—​namely, government, journalism, and education.

I’ve worked for the New York Times, Huffington Post, 20th Century Fox, and others.
Currently, I’m the President of Tech@NYU and a student at NYU Gallatin, where I’m creating an interdisciplinary major in Design.

Examines the role of the media and various psychological biases in creating political polarization. Looks at polarization’s risks and an attempted legal remedy. Ultimately advocates for a software product that would better serve and challenge readers, the design of which it briefly outlines.

Analyzing the school not in terms of its formal style, which changed radically over the years, but in terms of the populist and universalist ideals that it advocated for but wasn’t always able to live up to.